Ethics

I Always Wondered Where Those Things Went

By Ed Brayton

For every big sporting event, like the Super Bowl and the NCAA championship, both teams have their championship t-shirts and hats and such printed up in advance so they can haul them out immediately after their victory. But what happens to the championship gear for the losing team? Turns out they're giving them to the impoverished in the third world. That's great for them, they get clothing they badly need. But it's kinda weird that we're creating little alternate realities all around the world. Millions of children around the world will grow up thinking that the Patriots won the Super Bowl in 2008, that Ohio State won the last two BCS championships and that Lebron James won his first NBA title in 2007.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on February 18, 2008 (boomark / email).